LDS have largest families in U.S.

Deseret Morning News/February 26, 2008

By Joe Bauman

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have the
largest families in America, among both religious and nonreligious
groups.

Second place goes to Muslims, according to a survey released Monday.

The "U.S. Religious Landscape Survey" was prepared by the Pew Forum on
Religious and Public Life, based in Washington, D.C. The forum is
funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

The survey's summary says, "No matter how rigorous, however, all
surveys have their limitations and the Landscape Survey is no
exception. These limitations are particularly apparent when it
comes to providing definitive figures on membership in religious
groups."

That seems to skew the membership figures for the LDS group downward.
The survey was conducted only among adults 18 and older, and many LDS
families have children under 18, as evidenced by the finding that
members of the church have the largest families.

Also, the results only include members of a religion who live in
America, while the LDS membership is worldwide.

Chief findings are that 78.4 percent of the sampling of 35,000
Americans say they are Christians. The study found that 51.3 percent
of all Americans are Protestant, 23.9 percent are Catholic, 1.7
percent are LDS, Jehovah's Witnesses make up 0.7 percent, Orthodox
Christians are less than 0.6 percent and other Christians are 0.3
percent.

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